\u201cWe are particularly seeking a group of four people, who were riding bikes and walking, near the corner of Fenwick St and Fergusson Ave at approximately 7.30pm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hyde thanked people who had already come forward with CCTV footage, but said police were \u201cre-appealing for anyone who saw an unattended child\u201d on the night the boy went missing. <\/p>\n
The boy was found after a large search<\/a> involving police, Coastguard and Surf Lifesaving, who looked for the boy for more than three hours<\/a> before finding him in the early hours of the morning. <\/p>\n Coastguard Hawke\u2019s Bay skipper Henry van Tuel said conditions were calm on the night.<\/p>\n Van Tuel, who was on the water during the operation, said their crew was activated by police later in the evening and deployed immediately.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had six on the boat and three in the radio room, so nine of us were involved … We used our lights and night-vision gear,\u201d he told Hawke\u2019s Bay Today.<\/p>\n Napier mayor Richard McGrath said earlier this month the city was affected by the tragedy.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are deeply saddened by this tragic loss and our thoughts are with the family, friends and wider community of this young child,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Hyde said those people or anyone with information that could assist the investigation should contact police online at 105.police.govt.nz, or call 105 using the reference number 260206\/9567.<\/p>\n Information could also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are particularly seeking a group of four people, who were riding bikes and walking, near the corner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[103976,6375,1975,7972,12640,161867,651,51029,9944,2082,8456,209,305,42,78,15415,12898,8596,1362,3607,43,1118,675,161866,31124,5815,40,38,41,39,4770],"class_list":["post-292426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-5yearold","tag-appeal","tag-at","tag-beach","tag-bikes","tag-boy5","tag-close","tag-drowned","tag-drowning","tag-for","tag-fresh","tag-group","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-information","tag-investigation","tag-keen","tag-made","tag-napier","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-reappeal","tag-riding","tag-speak","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}